BUFFALO SOLDIERS, 2: Introducing school kids to previously 
unknown heroes ... on Passport to Texas.

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Buffalo soldiers were heroes in their time, yet their 
accomplishments, seldom taught in classrooms, leave 
many young African American students, like Greg 
McClanahan, with a limited sense of their history. 

:09 -- They didn't teach us nothing in school but that we were 
slaves. They didn't teach us that we were heroes or nothing. In 
history, all you ever heard about was slaves this, and slaves that. 
You didn't hear about no black heroes.

McClanahan attends public school in Kerrville, where he 
met Buffalo Soldier reenactors from Parks and Wildlife. 

:16 -- What we are doing is taking the legacy of the Buffalo Soldier 
into the cities and into the schools. And we feel that sharing this 
story, that we can instill some pride and some resolve in them.

Ken Pollard is a 2006 inductee into the National Cowboys 
of Color hall of Fame. He said he found out about the 
Buffalo Soldiers as an adult, but wished he'd known about 
them earlier. 

:20 -- My relatives and kinfolk were cowboys, man. We didn't have 
any black cowboys or soldiers, you know, to really look up to. For 
me, to have the black heroes there when I was growing up, that 
sense of pride would have been instilled in me. But if I had grown 
up with that -- they would have been my heroes.

Find information about Buffalo Soldiers Heritage & 
Community Outreach on the TPW website.

That's our show ... For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm 
Cecilia Nasti. 






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